Abstract: These are song sheets and instruction books
Anthony Beltramo, PhD, has collected over several decades.

Physical location: Currently housed at the UCLA Chicano
Studies Research Center Library Archive. In the future the collection
will be stored off site at the UCLA Southern Regional Library Facility.

Language of Material: Collection materials in Spanish

Access

Collection is open for research.To view the collection or any part of
it, please contact the CSRC at http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/

Publication Rights

All publication rights by permission only. Copyright has not been
assigned to the Chicano Studies Research Center. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in
writing to the Archivist and/or the Librarian at the Chicano Studies
Research Center Library. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the
copyright holder, which must also be obtained.

Donated by Anthony Beltramo. Deed on file at the UCLA CSRC Library
Archive.

Biography

Anthony Beltramo (PhD, Stanford 1972) was part of the Spanish faculty
at the University of Montana until retiring in 2005. He taught Spanish
applied linguistics and 2nd-language pedagogy with a research focus on
language retention in U.S. Hispanic communities, and English-language
influences on the Spanish spoken there. Since the 1960s, when he studied
and taught in Mexico, he has maintained a strong personal interest in
Mexican and Mexican American music and folklore. An amateur clarinetist
and guitarist, he relished opportunities to participate, for example, in
the Banda Municipal de Torreón and in conjuntos with colleagues
and students, and he often used music in his teaching. Activities over
the years (aside from his academic work) included forming a mariachi
band, tracking down and recording the performance of corridos as well as
other Latino musical styles, and documenting these in Montana as part of
the state's oral history. These are song sheets and instruction books he
has collected over several decades.

Scope and Content

One linear foot of Spanish language song sheets and other published
materials related to Spanish popular music of the 1930s-1940s.

Related Material

The Charles Rozaire collection of 78rpm recordings of popular Spanish
and English language music of the 1930s-1950s

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.